I recently purchased a three-year old Dell laptop computer. I used the computer for work (I am a sports writer). Ever since I got the computer, I have been having some problems with my modem. Whenver I go and work from a specific venue, I try to log into AOL. About half of the time, I get an error message saying that the modem does not detect a dial tone. Now the laptop works fine pretty much every other place that I have used it. I have taken it on the road with me and have had no problems. But when I go to this one venue here in town (Indianapolis), it works about half of the time. This week, it worked Monday and Thursday. I had problems with it Wednesday and today (Friday). If something was wrong with the modem, wouldn't I have a problem with it all the time? And why do I continually have a problem from this one place. I have used three different phone lines at this venue and its the same thing -- I get the error message stating that the modem does not detect a dial tone. What should I be doing to fix this problem?
